Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4 10/10] xen/arm,arm64: enable SWIOTLB_XEN

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 15 Aug 2013, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-08-15 at 12:10 +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > At the moment always rely on swiotlb-xen, but when Xen starts supporting
> > hardware IOMMUs we'll be able to avoid it conditionally on the presence
> > of an IOMMU on the platform.
> 
> Do we have any idea how we are going to do this?
> 
> It's extra complicated if you consider that on some systems on some of
> the devices are behind an IOMMU :-/
> 
> I wonder if we can enumerate which devices have an IOMMU at boot time
> and force a ludicrous dma mask (such as 0) if one isn't present in order
> to force us to always take the exchange_and_pin path?

We don't need to worry about how to specify which devices need to go via
the swiotlb internally, because we have our own arm specific
dma_map_ops. At the moment they are just implemented using the
swiotlb-xen functions, but we could easily provide wrappers that check
our own internal whitelist/blacklist and go via swiotlb-xen only in
those cases.

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